CFP: Al-Andalus and its Legacies (5/31/07; journal issue)

full name / name of organization:

Comparative Literature Studies

contact email:

cl-studies@psu.edu

*AL-ANDALUS AND ITS LEGACIES. **Comparative Literature Studies *invitessubmissions for a special issue guest-edited by Esperanza Alfonso(Universidad Complutense-Madrid) and Ross Brann (Cornell University). In theregion of Iberia that was under Islamic control from the eighth to thethirteenth century, Hebrew and Romance literatures burgeoned alongsideArabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture invoked in the name *al-Andalus*. *CLS *seeks papers that explore literary interactions andinfluences between cultures and languages in the aforementioned period,papers that reveal the legacy of this hybrid culture for later literaryproduction, or those that critique later representations of *al-Andalus* inliterary or historical texts. Papers should follow the Chicago Manual ofStyle, contain a minimum of 6,000 words, and be comparative in nature.Please send submissions to *Comparative Literature Studies*, Dept. ofComparative Literature, 311 Burrowes Building, Penn State University,University Park, PA 16802, or electronically to cl-studies_at_psu.edu. Thesubmissions deadline for this issue is May 31, 2007 and the issue isscheduled to appear in spring of 2008.